Modern readers often experience C.S. Lewis as “the Narnia guy,” but he’s also one of the 20th century’s foremost Christian apologetics. The Screwtape Letters, written from the point of...

Toni Morrison’s second novel in her beloved Beloved trilogy, Jazz introduces the reader to a trio of characters united by an incident of tragic romance. Will the freewheeling optimism...

Percy Jackson returns for another road trip across a mythological United States. Plenty of new characters are introduced — and some of them survive! This episode is sponsored by...

Our month of sequels continues with the first full-length novel in Martha Wells’ Murderbot series. The book’s extra length leaves it room to dig into themes that the novellas...

To kick off a month of sequel coverage, we get bone deep in the Locked Tomb follow up Harrow the Ninth. This obtuse but compelling sci-fi/fantasy tome plays with...

An early-90s Bengali novel that was translated into English relatively recently, The Aunt Who Wouldn’t Die has a lot going for it, but as with many books the thing...

For our latest show-within-a-show, we’ll revisit Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s The Iliad. We’ll be reading it a few books at a time and having...

Move along, everyone. Nothing to see here. No women navigating adult friendships and their identities as parents. No jabs at men in power who work overtime to cover up...

Time to celebrate winter with a chilly fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Also we’re talking Disney’s FROZEN! To join us for future bonus recordings, head topatreon.com/overduepod. Our theme...